Animal-stock.



1. MASSEY. ANIMAL STOCK- APPLICATION FILED MA-17.1916.

1,209,004. I Patented Dec.. 19, ]916.

I :3 SHEETS-SHEET l- 10F. MASSEY. ANIMAL STOCK. APPLICATION FILED MAY 17, 19H}- Patented Dec. 19, 1916.

1., F. MASSEY.

A NIMAL STOCK. APPLlCAT ION FILED MAY17,19I6.

Patented 11w 19,1916.

3 SHEETS-SHEET 3.

:rsns 1.11.. Puvm-um wAsnmc JAM S F. IVIASSEAY, or ROCK MART, GEORGIA.

' ANIMAL-STOCK;

Specification of Letters Patent. P te t d 15;, 191

Application filed May 17, 1916. Serial No. 98,162.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, JAMEs F. MASSEY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rock Mart, in the county of Polkand State of Georgia, have invented new and useful Improvements in Animal-Stocks of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to animal stocks and it consists in the novel features hereinafter described and claimed.

An object of the invention is to provide a stock of the character indicated especially adapted to be used by shoers when applying shoes to the hoofs of animals and also adapted to be used by veterinary surgeons for confining the animals during surgical operations.

With the above object in View the stock comprises a frame supported upon suitable legs and having a shelf upon which the operator may stand during the shoeing or surgical operation. A cage is pivotally mounted in the stand and is provided at its sides with detachable barriers. The said barriers are provided with straps adapted to pass over the back of the animal when it is positioned in the cage and the said cage is provided with straps adapted to pass under the belly of the animal when in the cage. The cage is further provided with a detachable floor which may be removed from the cage after the animal is secured therein' and before the cage is turned from an upright to an inverted position. Suitable cables are connected with the floor for raising and lowering the same and means are provided for operating the cables.

Stock blocks are detachably mounted in the barriers of the cage and are adapted to receive the ankles of the animal whereby the legs are confined during the operation.

In the accompanying drawings :Figure 1 is a side elevation of the stock showing the cage thereof in upright position. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the cage in an inverted position. Fig. 3 is a transverse sectional view of the stocks showing the cage in side elevation. Fig. 4 is a horizontal sectional view of the same cut on the line 44 of Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a transverse sectional view of the cage. Fig. 6 is a top plan View of the same.

The stock comprises a frame 1 which is mounted upon suitable legs 2, said frame being provided at its opposite sides and at its lower edges wi h re esses 3.. A shelf at is mounted at one side of the frame 1 and the saidrecesses 3 are located nearer that side of the frame at which the shelf 4 is located than the opposite side of the said frame. A derrick 5 is mounted upon the frame 1 above one of. the recesses 3.

A cage 6 is pivot-ally mounted in the frame 1 and the said cage is providedat its ends with recesses 7 adapted to register with the recesses 3 at the sides of the frame 1.

Straps 8 are secured at one end to the interniedi'ate portion of the cage 6 and the other ends of thesaid straps may be adjustably secured to the said cage whereby the intermediate portions of the strap may lie under the intermediate portion of the cage. Guides 9 are provided at the sides ofthe cage 6 and in the vicinity of the ends therer of. Barriers 10 are orovided-with side bars 11 which are detacha ly received in the said 1 guides 9. Straps 12 are secured to the upper 1 portions of the barriers 10 and are. adapted to lie over the back of the animal when the same isin position in the cage. Guides 13 are mounted upon the lowermost bars 11 and the guides 18. The guides 13 are provided with set screws 15 .which are adapted .to engage the stock blocks 14 whereby the said blocks are held in position in the said guides and fixed with relation to the barriers 10. When the stock blocks 14 are in position they are transversely disposed across the lower portion of the cage 6. v

A floor 16 is detachably mounted in the lower portion of the cage 6 and the said floor is provided at its corner portions with recesses 17 adapted to receive the end portions of the cage 6. Eyes 18 are mounted at the ends of the floor 16 and receive hooks 19 which are attached to the lower ends of cables 20. The cables 20 are trained through the intermediate portion of the cage 16 and are suitably trained over a pulley 21 mounted upon the derrick 5. A hook 22 is pivotally mounted upon the frame 1 and may be engaged with one end of the cage 6 for holding the same in an inverted position during the operation upon the animal which is confined in the cage.

In operation the barriers 10 are removed from the cage and the floor 16 is lowered so that it rests upon the floor or ground below the frame 1. The animal is then led into the cage through one of the recesses 7 and is permitted to Stand. upon the floor 16, The

stock blocks lat are removably mounted in by 'ineans of the set :SCI'GWS 16 whereby the blocks :surround the aankles of '2 the 1 animal and confine the legs. The "cage 6 is then turned .over: and-assumes an inverted :position in the framel and -.the ho'ok':22 is 'en- :gaged with the end .ofitthe-scage whereby the barriers are inserted straps 8 are then tightened by epulllng 01' OtllQiWlSfitO'llftLSOIHG or all of the We1ght of the-animal from thefioorilfi. The cables QO-are then paid out so that i the fi0or 16: is

lowered and then by detaching the-hooks'lS) "from the eyes 18 the vfloor '16'is remoredfrom :'the cage 6. in the cage ering the 'fioor the :stock blocks 140" are :in

Thus the ani1nal :is suspended by the strapsS. 1 Prior to'vlowserted i in thew'uid-es 13 *and secured therein said cage is held in; the 1 said inverted qposition. Thus the: hoofs :of: the? animal'zare .up- 'wardly disposed and the 1 operator utho wstands upon the-shelf l 1 may readily::,apply vsh'oes' mum'- hoofs or perform any lotherioperation' uponzthe confined animal. After the completion of the operation the nnanipulation of-the parts-of the stock as'hereinbe- :fore described is=reversed whereby-thevanimal is-swung from -an inverted to a-an eupllgllt posltion and may'be-iledmut of the cage.

"Fromthe foregoing description taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing' it wi'll -bes'een -that an animal stock of simple and durable structure is provided and 'that the same may be easily and quickly manipulated for properly positioning an animalt'o perform shoeing or'surgi'calope-rations uponixithe same and the apparatus may especially be used to advantage for confining Wild or "nervous: animalsaduring such 1 operations.

Having describedthe invention What is claimed is 1. Anuanimal stockrcomprising:a frame,- a woage pivotally i mounted therein;,straps carried by the oage:=:and-:adaptedato"bepassed under the belly of the ==:anin1al, barriers movablywmounted' on .-the;'cage, straps carried by the barriers andwadaptedfito be, passed over the back oftheanimal and-stock'blocks oarried; bywthe barriers for confining the legs ofithe animal.

:2. d ineanini-al' stock comprising a frame, a cage pivotally-| -1nountecl-therein,strapscar- 1 ried by the cage:- and adapted -to be passed under the belly of the animal, barriers mov- =-ably mounted upon-the eagepstraps carried =by-the barriers-a d adaptedto be, positioned overfthebackof :movably mounted an the barriers, a floor wmovably mounted in the cagevand means for unoving' thefloor. I

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This A JMASSEY.

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